A Badger's Civil War Diary: The Diary of William Henry Baker while in the Union Army. Company B, 30th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, 1862 to 1865

by Douglas Baker (Editor)

Overview

William Henry Baker, of Linden Wisconsin, enlisted in the Union Army in August 1862 and served through September 1865. He was a Private in Company B of the 30th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers. His diary provides perspectives on the daily grind of Army life along with insightful observations about the people and places that he encountered.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781736560204
Publisher:	Douglas Scott Baker
Publication date:	02/16/2021
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

Doug Baker is the great-great grandson of William Henry Baker. He has always been a history buff, and is proud to have brought William Henry’s Civil War experiences to life in this book.

Publishing William Henry’s diary has been a Baker family project that’s taken a century. Doug’s great grandfather Roscoe and his siblings began the transcription project from the original handwritten journals in the early 1900’s. Roscoe passed the project to his son Merle, who passed it to his son David, who passed it to his son Doug. As David’s life was winding down, he asked Doug to complete the project. He agreed and after four years of painstaking work, everything William Henry wrote by hand was typed into a document and ready for print.

Doug was born and raised in Wisconsin. He is an IT consultant with a BBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA from the Lubar School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He lives with his wife Steffi in Utah.